Pakistani footballers Naveed Akram and Mahmood Ali, who play for WAPDA on the domestic circuit, have signed with Saraswoti Youth Club (SYC) of Nepal on loan for a two-month period for the 2011 Nepal Martyr’s Memorial Division-A League which is currently in progress.“Both the players have signed for the Nepali club after taking NOCs from the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF),” the secretary of the PFF Col Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi told ‘The News’ on Wednesday.
“It’s a good sign that our players have been picked by any foreign club which will help them improve their financial position and polish their skills,” Lodhi said. “WAPDA’s striker Arif Mehmood was also offered a contract by the same club for $1300 per month but he was not interested as he is a part of the Pakistan’s camp for the World Cup qualifiers,” he revealed.
The contracts were offered to the trio during the AFC President’s Cup in Nepal last month in which national champions WAPDA took part. The loan period will last till the middle of July. Midfielder Mahmood Ali from Quetta and dynamic fullback Naveed Akram from Multan broke the decades old drought by joining foreign clubs.
Former striker Ali Nawaz Baloch and Ghulam Sarwar were the Pakistani footballers who used to play leagues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf countries in the 1970s.
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